But that's partially the point, people's dreams of escaping their situation is used to exploit them. Then the state is funneling the money out of the most poor

But that's partially the point, people's dreams of escaping their situation is used to exploit them. Then the state is funneling the money out of the most poor and desperate, which is out right depravity, to benefit mostly everybody else except who they take from the most. That's not a fair and equitable system, nor arguably the way states should be managing such lotteries, particularly the profits from them.